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Heather Mallick

Heather Mallick is a Canadian columnist, author and lecturer. She writes a twice weekly column for the Toronto Star, an occasional column for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's website, and a monthly column for The Guardian's website.

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ViewsTuesday, September 04, 2018Humans Repeat History. Race Wars Are BackHistory repeats itself. That’s the truism but it’s not quite right. People repeat history. As some European nations return to authoritarianism, as the U.S. sees neo-Nazis marching and entering mainstream conversation, as migrants are described as vermin and the 2008 economic catastrophe has become...Read more

ViewsMonday, October 30, 2017Americans Should Take a Lesson from Canadians and Just Grow UpCanadians and Americans are different. In this Trumpian moment of madness, what a pleasure it is to remember this. Though this classic The Beaverton headline gets it right — “Homegrown Canadian racists determined to compete with flashier American racists” — and though we are sodden, absolutely...Read more

ViewsMonday, May 01, 2017Why I Love Taxes — And So Should YouI love taxes. I even love paying them because they’re inarguable, which brings a kind of comfort in a shifting world. What Revenue Canada wants, Revenue Canada gets. Good for them. Unlike so many coveted things that fail to deliver — wealth only brings a new set of problems, infants are worry...Read more

ViewsWednesday, June 24, 2015Austerity Advances on Us Like a SharkPeople don’t learn from economic hardship because looking back is too painful. They quietly put away memories of the last recession, the cold fear of missing a mortgage payment, the layoff, and then suddenly it’s back. Interest rates rise and the mortgage leaps. Your child’s going to university and...Read more

ViewsWednesday, October 16, 2013Bangladeshi Sweatshops and Why We Love ThemIt has been a tough week for stingy Canadians who wear clothes, with three media exposés of hideous conditions in Bangladeshi sweatshops where human beings sew clothes for the lowest wages on the planet for, well, people like me.Read more

ViewsMonday, October 14, 20132013 Resembles 1927, A Terrifying YearI don’t know why you all seem to think it’s 2013. Clearly it is 1927. I just read Bill Bryson’s book on the American summer of that year — the glorious writer has an astonishing knack for narrative even on sedative subjects like baseball — and it fell from my nerveless fingers when I realized what he was trying to convey. The world is holding 1927 all over again.Read more

ViewsSunday, May 13, 2012Mitt Romney’s Anti-Gay Bullying Has a Human Face NowI love guilt. I wish people felt more of this emotion so foreign to Mitt Romney that he claims not to remember what a brute he was in school, the boy being father to the man, a Bain consultant who killed so many jobs in the ’80s that many grown men must have come home weeping to their families and never worked again.Read more

ViewsWednesday, May 02, 2012Spain's Pain is No One's GainIt’s hard to list the news from Spain in order of badness. It’s all awful. Just shuffle the stats like a horrible card deal. Wait for Italy to be dealt its cards next. Then watch the eurozone fall apart and the shudders spread worldwide.Read more

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